Originally Posted by Janszoon

Okay, well here's the breakdown...

The ten states with the highest rate of gun murder are:

1. Louisiana
2. Maryland
3. Mississippi
4. California
5. Nevada
6. South Carolina
7. Illinois*
8. Michigan*
9. Arizona
10. New Mexico*

The ten states with the lowest rate of gun murder are:

1. New Hampshire
2. Vermont*
3. Hawaii*
4. Wyoming
5. North Dakota*
6. Maine*
7. Iowa*
8. South Dakota
9. Utah
10. Idaho

States without the death penalty are marked with asterisks. Not too much of a pattern here, although if you look at the top five in each category, you notice that all of the worst states for gun murder have the death penalty, while only 2 out of 5 of the best states have it. It should also be pointed out that, even though New Hampshire has the death penalty on the books, they haven't executed anyone in over 35 years. Similarly, Wyoming hasn't executed anyone in 20 years.

(death penalty source, murder by gun source)

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.